Federer lost in the first round of Wimbledon 3 times. And lost in the qf in 2 of the last 3 Wimbledon. Nadal is 52-1 at Roland Garros. Federer is a mess at Wimbledon by comparison. But I thank Federer for winning a 7th Wimbledon to tie Sampras, because now there is no GOAT at Wimbledon. Now Nadal is the only GOAT in history.

Federer lost in the first round of Wimbledon 3 times. And lost in the qf in 2 of the last 3 Wimbledon. Nadal is 52-1 at Roland Garros. Federer is a mess at Wimbledon by comparison. But I thank Federer for winning a 7th Wimbledon to tie Sampras, because now there is no GOAT at Wimbledon. Now Nadal is the only GOAT in history.

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nadal is best of all time at roland garros, and on clay, yes

but overall, no

firmly behind federer, sampras and borg.

you can probably make an argument for only just being above lendl despite the 3 slam difference

Nadal is the undisputed GOAT of both clay and Roland Garros, with no remotedly possible argument for anyone else. He is the most clear cut case of anyone for a particular slam or surface, man or women.

Navratilova is probably the Wimbledon GOAT, but she is not the undisputed grass court GOAT. She averaged only 6 slams at the 2 grass slams vs 6.33 for Court at the 3 she played, 7 for Graf at the 1 she played, 7.5 for Wills at the 2 she played (she never played the Australian). French Open and clay GOAT for women is probably Evert, but some would say Graf and Seles at their best were better clay courters, and faced way tougher competition on clay, in Graf's case even with the Seles stabbing the clay field of her era >>>>>> the clay field of Evert's.

Obviously for the men the grass and Wimbledon GOAT is debated amongst Sampras, Laver, Tilden (grass only), Gonzales (grass only), and Federer.

Hard courts is probably Federer for the men, but it is a surface that has only been in high prominence for 35 years anyway. U.S Open GOAT is probably Tilden, but could be Connors, Sampras, or Federer as well.

nonetheless, federer was beaten by a (then) clay specialist in his backyard

sampras was never dominated by anyone

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samras wasnt mentally tough when he was...

losing to george bastl
or losing to kraijeik
or losing to federer lol

and losing to nadal at wimbledon is better than losing to bastl in the 2nd rd at wimbledon
and federer won as many wimbledons as sampras..but reached loads more finals because federer is superior and mentally tougher than sampuss.

Nadal is the only man who can stop Djokovic at the AO maybe, considering the 2012 final. Although Murray also only lost 7-5 in the 5th set, so there is a chance Djokovic will never win the AO again if the gap continues to close, in both cases.